Natural bodily changes constitute an early, deficient experience of temporality

Evidence

In the process of individuation, these ‘natural changes’ represent a higher stage. These already begin to manifest the difference between identity and alterity. Hence, these natural alterations can be seen as an early experience of temporality. However, because they are simply natural, such alterations have not yet achieved their full measure of actuality. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 341

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines how the natural changes of aging, sexuality, and sleep-wake cycles function as a proto-temporality in Hegel’s Anthropology.
• XREF: Connects to the broader project of The Future of Hegel: this is the natural-bodily substrate that plasticity later transfigures, the raw matter the reader’s brain-work theorizes against. — connects to: Psychic temporality is constituted by reflection, not original temporality — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 549; Puberty alters a girl’s sensory relation to the world before she understands it